need help load abandonment!

Man up and finish the load. After that quit and go into flipping burgers.

 

After repeated requests, the OP has not even acknowledged that knowing the circumstances of his situation would assist us in helping him evaluate his options. We all generally know that it not a good sign.

I have to kind of split the difference just a touch here, I think, but by and large I'm on Otter's side of the fence. Otter is absolutely right in that the student has no real responsibility here. And as such any company that tried to accuse him of abandonment could get there tails in a crack if the OP had the cajones to force the issue. We all hear the horror stories, but have you ever noticed they tend to come from the "I've had 5 jobs in my first two years" crowd. Not saying that they are automatically guilty, but I don't know a soul who has had a DAC issue. I'm sure there's fools who put false info on to the DAC reports, but there is a mechanism to deal with those. And under law, DAC has to remove any knowingly false info, as they fall under the laws governing credit reporting. Now if this isn't a student situation, and he is operating as part of a team operation, then we have a whole different animal. But all we've got to go on is "Take me side, trust me, just take my side!" And I tend to feel that information is only withheld in these cases when it is damaging to the OP. Why else do those questions echo of the forum walls unanswered? Just sayin'!

 

What I would do is wait until the load is delivered, then leave the truck to go home for an emergency; family member sick or whatever. Hitch hike, greyhound bus, bum ride at truckstop; just leave the truck ASAP. Then call the company from home and resign. Other companies will hire you, don't worry. Some companies put you with a trainer for 2 or 3 days, then you're on your own which is good. This trainer stuff for months or weeks is just a way the companies get teams in the trucks.

After you are home & resigned from the company, if you have trouble finding a new company, get back on this forum & we will help you. Way too many years experience from many good drivers on this forum to not be able to help.

 

A shot of laxative in the coffee humbles even the most hardened crusty old trainers.

 

he wouldn't do that to me.....

 

By all means yes you CAN be dac for it. As a student assigned to a truck your log time is counted towards the trucks daily drive time. your hours extened your trucks move time and therfor make you responsible for the load.Just as if you got yourself a speeding ticket,log fine,or wrecked YOU have a commitment to the truck and load.....and yes it is dac a program RUN by hireright......listen you have 50 people telling you the same thing and one fool hoping to screw a noobie. now even if you quit under good terms your not starting with a good record. questions to think do you have your cdl or still training how much trucking exp do you have.....if you dont have you cdl or have less than 6 months exp its going to hurt you trying to get a job. any company is going to look and think he or she didnt even make it through training before quiting so how dependable is he or she......

 

You need to read your company policy, not all of them are the same. When you have all that info, then you can make your move. Good Luck

 

When a trainee sits in the driver seat he is 100% responsible for his actions. Though paid a reduced amount because of the school loan thing he is getting paid for the load. When you get paid to do a job you can be held responsible.
You never quit under load and you never abandon a truck. Those are the top two main concerns when protecting your DAC. It can even be a non-DAC company because a work background history will be completed and they will ask if you are eligible for rehire.

As much as one can get mad you never act on impulse. Plan and do the right thing to protect your future interest. Your choices are simple. Wait for the right opportunity when you are not under load to quit. With a trainer there they can't get you for equipment abandonment because the truck is the trainers. Everyone has that moment where they sit waiting on a dispatch. That is one chance.

The other is to give notice and document it. Whether it be in writing or pictures of the Qualcomm. They can't hold you hostage on a planned quit. Just be reasonable and understand it might take up to three loads to get you to a terminal. After that point if they don't comply then you have a good reason to walk.

If you don't plan on returning to trucking I guess it don't matter. You are going to see the same crap at the next training company. Are you going to get mad and quit them too?

Attitude is everything. You can take a little problem and let it eat at you. That little problem will snowball into many problems if you let it which I speculate is happening to you. Part of being a truck driver is dealing with these short lived problems in a professional manner. You don't dwell on them but deal with it and move on to the next. Tomorrow you forgot about yesterdays problems. It's difficult for a young person to understand how to deal with trucking problems. You can respond to a problem by doing such and such and be mad or do such and such and it's no big deal.

 

Another one bites the dust. I wanna be a trucker so bad...4 weeks later...LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!! Hahahahaha